There is this interesting statistic: the clothes that women buy for themselves tend to be 20% more expensive in real price than what they tell their husbands.
Why women love to tell 20% lies
When women buy clothes, the real price is always 20% more expensive than what they tell their husbands.
When a woman’s wife has a lot of clothes, she feels that she has too many clothes, and no matter how many clothes she has, she feels that she doesn’t have enough in her closet.
So, in order to keep adding to the stock without causing conflict with their husbands, wives will tell a small lie to hide the real price. This is the source of women’s lies.
But why the 20% figure? Why not less, like 10%? Why not more, like 30%? The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. The number is too small to make it worthwhile for a woman to be a liar in front of her husband. 30% of lies are slightly too much. Once it rises to “3”, people’s moral bottom line will sound the alarm. The company’s main focus is on the development of a new product.
So women love to tell 20% lies because the burden is not too great and the effect is not too bad: 20% less price, the man will be 20% less hostile to the price of his wife’s new clothes; but 20% less price, the woman will not take it as a deception in her heart.
There are many kinds of lies in life. The best liar will only ever tamper with 20% of the truth. The reason is that there is no pressure on his conscience, and the person on the other side of the table who is being deceived will not have much to lose. The 20% can’t be called a lie, let’s call it “putting makeup on the truth”.
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Women’s Favorite Actions When Lying
A thoughtless glance, an offhand smile, a small gesture, these tiny body language that we overlook can reveal whether you are lying or not.
Scratching ears
Children use two hands to plug their ears to avoid scolding from their parents, and the scratching gesture is the adult version of this body language. There are also many variations of the ear scratching gesture, including rubbing the back of the ear, sticking the fingertips inside the ear canal to pull out the ear, pulling on the earlobe, folding the entire ear forward to cover the ear hole, and so on.
People may also engage in ear scratching when they feel they have heard enough, or when they want to speak. Scratching the ears also means the person is in a state of anxiety.
Pulling on the collar
Lying can cause tingling sensations in the sensitive facial and neck nerve tissue, so people have to eliminate this discomfort by rubbing or scratching. This phenomenon not only explains why people scratch their necks when they are suspicious, it also explains why liars tug at their collars so often when they are worried that their lies will be caught. This is because once the liar senses the listener’s suspicion, the enhanced blood pressure causes the neck to sweat continuously.
When a person feels angry or frustrated, they also tug their collar away from their neck so that cool air can pass through their clothes and cool the fire in their heart. When you see someone doing this, you may want to say to him, “Could you please say that again, please?” Or, “Can you just say what you have to say, please?” This will make the person who is trying to lie show his or her hand.
Scratching the neck
The neck scratching gesture is to scratch the area on the side of the neck below the earlobe with the index finger (usually the index finger of the hand used to write). We concluded from our observations that people usually scratch their index finger five times each time they perform this gesture. The number of index finger movements is rarely less than 5 or more than 5. This gesture is a sign of doubt and uncertainty, equivalent to the person saying, “I’m not quite sure if I agree with you.”
The inconsistency is particularly apparent when the verbal language is inconsistent with the gesture. For example, if someone says, “I really understand how you feel,” but at the same time they are scratching their neck, we can conclude that they don’t actually understand.
Rubbing eyes
When a child doesn’t want to see something, he covers his eyes with his hands. The brain attempts to prevent the eyes from witnessing deception, suspicion, and unpleasantness, or to avoid confronting the person who is being deceived, by using the eye rubbing gesture. Movie actors often use the eye rubbing gesture to show the hypocrisy of their characters.
A man tends to rub his eyes hard when making the I don’t want to look at it gesture; if he is trying to cover up a big lie, he is likely to turn his face away. In contrast, women are less likely to make a gesture of rubbing their eyes, they are generally just a gentle touch below the eyes. This is partly because ladylike manners restrict them from making rude gestures, and partly to avoid messing up makeup. However, like men, women will turn their faces to the side when they lie to avoid the gaze of the listener.